Welcome to Our Pilates Studio

Suncoast Pilates offers Pilates equipment training in a fully equipped Pilates studio serving Palm Harbor, Clearwater, Dunedin, Tarpon Springs, Countryside, Oldsmar, Safety Harbor and Tampa Bay Florida area since 1997. The studio, awarded Tampa Bay’s “Best Pilates Studio” two years in a row – 2014 and 2013, offers Pilates instruction in private, duo and group equipment and Pilates Mat classes with some of the area’s most experienced, highly trained, Certified and Comprehensively Trained Pilates Instructors. Suncoast offers private and duet sessions by appointment six days a week. Classes are offered at select days and times weekly. Additional service offered is CoreAlign sessions. Suncoast Pilates is a Balanced Body Pilates Instructor Training Facility where Pilates instructors from all over the world come for Pilates training and continuing education. Would you trust your body to any one else but the best?

Looking for a dramatic change to your body? Have you tried Pilates?

Looking for a different way to work out that leaves you feeling stronger, leaner, sculpted, energized and more flexible, yet does not leave you unable to walk, sit or move the next day? Pilates improves posture, flexibility while increasing strength.

Never exercised, or have not exercised in a long time? Pilates is great for both beginners as well as the professional athlete.

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History of Pilates

Pilates is a unique method of body conditioning named after German-born Joseph H. Pilates. Joseph Pilates, born in Monchengladbach, Germany, was living in England, working as a circus performer and boxer, when he was placed in forced internment in England at the outbreak of WWI. While in the internment camp, he began to develop the floor exercises that evolved into what we now know as the Pilates mat work.

As time went by, Joseph Pilates began to work with rehabilitating detainees who were suffering from diseases and injuries. It was invention born of necessity that inspired him to utilize items that were available to him, like bed springs and beer keg rings, to create resistance exercise equipment for his patients. These were the beginnings of the equipment we use today, like the Reformer and the Magic Circle.